December 2011
The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did in Blade Runner was to...
– William Gibson (via inky)
A well-balanced person is someone with a drink in each hand.
– Billy Connolly (via inky)
Building something that just doesn’t seem to find its market for years is just...
– What have you learnt this year? - swombat.com on startups
Because the notion of not being able to eat something is impossible for humans...
– Greenland shark
We’ve got to stop pretending this has anything to do with The Culture of Free –...
– comment from Brad Bell (via Leveraging the web: how people are willing to pay for content | David Campbell)
Outsiders seem to think that the Toyota Production System and kanban are the...
– Scrum Log Jeff Sutherland: An Alternative to Kanban: One-Piece Continuous Flow
But these people don’t have shame. What they have, in the place where most...
– Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: A Christmas Message From America’s Rich
I haven’t been hungry since 1931.
– My grandpa Rock, every time someone asked him if he was hungry. (via andyswan)
Bomb Flow TV Episode #2 Pacific Northwest (by BombFlowTV)
never thought that kayaking could be so extreme.
In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens. Theater is there to...
– Paris Review – Václav Havel: Outtakes from An Interview, Adam Thirlwell
fuckyeahdementia:
Dinner time! (via)
daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil →
sinker:
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…
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I’ll keep playing here [on the web] while the rest of you flirt with apps. I’ll...
– Scripting News: Why apps are not the future (via rafer)
The Day I Saw Van Gogh's Genius in a New Light →
john:
Pretty incredible post
Recently, during a show I was talking about how many Asians smoke at my...
– A Stereotype Walks into a Bar « The Bygone Bureau
It was never the object of [patent] laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling...
– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley, 1883 (via Jens Alfke)
1883 - motherfuckers!
But from Michele Bachmann to Herman Cain, the outsiders haven’t risen to the...
– Our Reckless Meritocracy - NYTimes.com